Leverett v. Armstrong
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a real action, in which the demandant claimed as son and heir of Thomas Leverett, who died seised of the premises in the year .1778. His estate, being insolvent, was sold by Martha Leverett, his widow and administratrix, in July, 1783, under an order of the Court of Common * Pleas, to pay the debts of the deceased. The land demanded in this action was that part of the estate which had been assigned to the widow as her dower.
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This was a real action, in which the demandant claimed as son and heir of Thomas Leverett, who died seised of the premises in the year .1778. His estate, being insolvent, was sold by Martha Leverett, his widow and administratrix, in July, 1783, under an order of the Court of Common * Pleas, to pay the debts of the deceased. The land demanded in this action was that part of the estate which had been assigned to the widow as her dower. One Jonathan Harris was the purchaser at the public sale, and a copy of the deed to him came up in the case. It recited the proceedings in the Probate Court, and…
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, J.
The demandant claims as heir at law, and the tenant in virtue of a deed from the administratrix of Thomas Leverett, deceased, made pursuant to an order of the Court of Common Pleas of this county, April term, 1783, licensing the sale of said deceased’s real estate for the payment of his debts. The demanded premises were assigned to his widow as her dower, and she has deceased.
It has been contended, for the demandant, that the deed did not convey the reversion; because the court had no authority to license the administratrix to make sale of a reversion, living the tenant in dower; and, 2dly,…
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